quote:Originally posted by Mr. Lesbo: The problem I have with France is their blind eye to history. Hitler should have never reached the point he did. He broke one little rule after the next until he became so powerful no one could stop him. Lets also not forget the stab in the back the French pulled. Do you know what country France stuck a knife in? I think it would be Poland. I'm not sure but I do know they had an agreement to stand with this country and then France signed with Germany behind everyone's backs and they fell in less than six weeks once Germany turned on them.
I think you're getting France mixed up with Russia. France and England guaranteed Poland's borders about 6 months before the Germans invaded Poland. When that happened, France and England declared war on Germany. France was overwhelmed in the Blitzkrieg, and the First Expeditionary Army, sent from England, was cut off and had to escape through Dunkirk.
Russia had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany -the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (to everyone's surprise because of the ideological differences between the two countries) which Germany later broke when it invaded Russia.
quote: The more we let other nations break UN regulations the more chance we will allow history to repeat itself. I admit "coward" is to strong a word but at the same time the French allowed Germany to become a super power.
Huh? Germany became a power despite massive reparations from WW1, a hyperinflation problem and a global depression which knocked everyone flat. I dare say the French were too busy tryng to sort their own economy out, but more to the point, don't underestimate German resourcefulness. The fact that the Germans were able to recover so quickly from a devastating war and from everything else just shows how capable they are.
quote: The more nations with violent leaders we allow to arm themselves the less safe the world becomes for all of us. If there should be a nation that should understand this simple fact one would think France would be at the top of the list.
Former UN weapons inspector Richard Butler agrees with you and says that the developed world, such as France, should set an example and disarm its weapons of mass destruction, and so should the US.
You see, the argument amongst these smaller states is that if the big powers have nukes, then why can't we since we are their sovereign equals? (Why is why the Non-proliferation Treaty is so important, incidentally.) North Korea certainly shows how much weight a country can carry if it has nukes: NK has a shithouse economy, a starving population and is in the arse end of China, yet it growls and grumbles and the world pays attention. And no one can touch them because they'll rain fire on Seoul or Tokyo.
